Overview
This itinerary concerning about 5 days Tanzania safari starts from Arusha Town or Moshi to Arusha National Park in which you will drive passing various landmarks such as the Momella Lakes and Ngurdoto Crater. Ngurdoto Crater sometimes is called 'Little Ngorongoro'. Your Tanzania Safari jeep will pass under the Fig tree in Arusha National Park whose roots have grown to take the shape of an arch, large enough for a Safari car to pass underneath. This 5-day package also will allow you to see the Manyara's tree climbing lions, species of birds, and wallowing hippos from Lake Manyara. Then proceed to Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater to decide on diverse photographing and wildlife game drive that Afro-Vertex Tours & Safaris offers. You will get a chance of coming close to the Maasai culture as you will pass near their some bomas and get to see the huts try their daily experience as well as culture.
Itinerary
Day 1: Arusha to Arusha National Park and Back to Arusha
Depart from your hotel in Arusha/Moshi after morning breakfast drive to the Arusha National Park. Entering to the Arusha National Park, you will start a game drive through the Arusha National Park passing you to different landmarks such as the Momella Lakes and Ngurdoto Crater. You will go under the Fig tree (Ficus thonningii) large enough for a Safari jeep car to pass underneath and where you may need to take photos. When lunch time you will be directed to a picnic point to get lunch. At around 04 will leave the Arusha National Park to Arusha Town in your hotel.
Day 2: Arusha Town to Lake Manyara National Park and overnight at Lake Manyara
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Accommodations: Client’s selection public campsite/ tented campsite/ Lodges
You will leave from your hotel early in Morning in Arusha directly to Lake Manyara National Park after breakfast taking approximately 2 hours passing through the town of Mto Wa Mbu near the way. After reach at the village market and short brief, you will enter Lake Manyara National Park. The Lake Manyara National Park is one of the best places for photographing and best game viewing garden in the world. You will be able to see many of most well-known animals like BIG FIVEs, especially the tree-climbing lions, acacia trees which you may need to take photograph. Bird-watching safari is made in Lake Manyara discovering a huge amount of bird species displaying near the Lake Manyara. Such bird’s species are like large flamingo flocks, circling birds of prey, and the colored lilac breasted roller. You will then retire to the accommodation site in Lake Manyara National Park for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Lake Manyara National Park to Serengeti National Park and overnight in Serengeti
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Accommodations: Client’s selection public campsite/ tented campsite/ Lodges
After a fascinating breakfast in the Lake Manyara National Park, we travel towards the Central Serengeti National Park by passing through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. We enter into the center of wild Africa; Serengeti National Park known as endless plain. We head to the central Serengeti area, the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the Serengeti National Park, with its beside Seronera River, as water source attracting wildlife animals’ representatives of most of the Serengeti’s wildlife species. We will arrive best time for lunch in the afternoon and proceed with game drive in the Serengeti National Park. Dinner and overnight at your hotel/camp.
Day 4: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater
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Accommodations: Client’s selection public campsite/ tented campsite/ Lodges
After breakfast time you will proceed with a game drive safari in Serengeti National Park with lunch box following the wildebeests Migration at the Northern Serengeti, you will be able to see wildebeest, zebra, a topi hartebeest, eland, antelope, hyena, varieties of birds on the trees also taking pictures of the beauty of Serengeti landscapes and nature. We will get lunch and then continue with game view in Serengeti towards the Serengeti gate checking out of Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Dinner and overnight at your accommodation site.
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater - Arusha
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In the early morning you wake up with healthy breakfast before descend into the Ngorongoro Crater with lunch box experiencing the game drive for more than six hours. The Ngorongoro Crater is the most crowded African wildlife area in the world. Ngorongoro Crater supports a variety of animals including herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and elephants, huge population of predators, like lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and leopards available in the Ngorongoro Crater floor. Then after a picnic lunch you will have a short game drive in Ngorongoro Crater and in the late afternoon you will ascend to Ngorongoro gate drive heading back to Arusha
